By Villegas & LucasIntroduction, Chapters 1 and 2

David Schwarzer - Presenter

Demographic trends –

Students more and more culturally, linguistically and ethnically diverse.

Teachers – mostly white middle class females

Adding a course on multiculuralism is not enough

A coherent approach to education culturally (and linguistically) responsive teachers is needed.

Students – The changing K-12 student population

Teacher – Current an future teachers trends

Repercussions of the racial/ethnic, economic and language gap between students and teachers.

What does this mean?

Do you have the current trends in YOUR community?

1. Gaining sociocultural consciousness.

2. Developing an affirming attitude toward students from culturally diverse backgrounds.

Deficit theories

Cultural difference theories

Structured inequalities (funding & curriculum)

3. Developing the commitment and skills to act as agents of change.

Monolingual Teachers fostering Multilingualism in their own content area teaching.

Translingualism: The development of Languages and literacies

that interact with each other in a dynamic and fluid way while moving back and forth between real and “imagined” glocalizedborders while transacting with different cultural identities within a unified self (Schwarzer, in preparation).